Professor Linda McDowell
Professor Linda McDowell
Professorial Fellow in Geography
Email: Professor Linda McDowell
Teaching Interests
My main teaching contribution is in the Final Honours School where I give lectures about the changing nature of work and employment in the contemporary period. I also run classes on the philosophy of human geography and the social sciences for DPhil students.
Research Interests
My main interests are in the connections between economic restructuring and divisions of labour in Great Britain since 1950 and in feminist theory and methodology. I have completed work on changing employment practices in the City of London, on young unskilled men’s labour market entry behaviour, on European migrant women workers in the immediate post World War II period and on post EU enlargement migrant labour in Greater London. For the last two years, I have been part of the AHRC-funded diasporas programme, looking at Asian women’s political involvement in British workplaces with Professor Ruth Pearson at Leeds University. I am now working on a history of women migrants’ labour market participation in the UK since 1945.
My departmental web site has a full list of my recent publications.
Other Information
I am currently director of St John’s College Research Centre.
